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Check your throw angle with a one-arm pendulum

As a check on the throw angle, the coach says to go to the top of your current backswing and move the lead arm off your body toward the target, like swinging a pendulum. Too steep and you hit behind the ball; too shallow and you completely miss the ground; just right and you brush the ground out in front with a free-moving shoulder.

Channel: SagutoGolf

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Try it

  1. Go to the top of your current backswing
  2. Move your lead arm off your body toward the target, like you're swinging a pendulum
  3. If it's too steep you're hitting behind the ball; if it's too shallow you completely miss the ground; if it's just right you hit the ground with a brushing out in front